kitchen from the living room, hiding the kitchen without impeding the fluidity
between the two volumes. As with the top floor, a sliding door is also used
in the entrance of the living room, isolating the room from the elevator and
stairwell spaces. The ground floor of the house is designed as a garden floor
that opens to the poolside garden. There are three different functions of this
floor; television and cinema units at one side, bookshelf and dining table at the
middle. Steam room, sauna, whirlpool bath and shower are also located on this
floor. These spaces can be separated from the other volumes with tulle curtains
and sliding glass doors.
After a yearlong construction, the design process was completed and the
interiors and garden become ready for their residents at the end of 2011.
One of most striking characteristics of the S House interior design by Tanju
Özelgin, is how it reflects the energy of the surrounding natural environment
within the house through a combination of stone and wood surfaces. Many
of the details throughout the house support this design approach focused on
natural textures. The natural stone material used on either the floor or walls
of the bedrooms, bathrooms, showers, kitchen and halls completes the all
encompassing pure and light color palette of the house. In other areas this
stone treatment enables nature to have a presence especially in the garden
floor acting as an extension of the garden. The marble, named Gray Line from
Italy is sandblasted with fine sand and by using chemical materials prevents the
stone from changing its original color. Especially in the bathroom and shower
zones, the natural stone surfaces in 60 x 60 cm and 80 x 80 cm marble panels
continues from the ground to the walls to give the material a three dimensional
effect strengthening the feeling of the unity of the interior to the exterior
environment.
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